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Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience
Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone
This title marks the 500th anniversary of the birth and the 450th anniversary of the death of Vesalius. The authors translated Latin chapters of the Fabrica dedicated to the brain, a ...
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Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine: 25th Anniversary Edition (2 ed.)
Gordon M. Shepherd
The neuron doctrine, first formulated in 1891, states that the brain is constructed of individual neurons, organized into functioning circuits that mediate behavior. It is the fundamental ...
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Georges Gilles de la Tourette: Beyond the Eponym
Olivier Walusinski
An exhaustive biography of French neuropsychiatrist Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857–1904) has never been undertaken. Gilles de la Tourette worked closely with the nineteenth-century ...
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The History of a Genetic Disease: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or Meryon's Disease (2 ed.)
Alan E. H. Emery and Marcia L. H. Emery
This resource traces the history of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in detail along with a commentary of Edward Meryon's research, which has led to our current understanding of the disease, ...
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The History of the World Federation of Neurology: The First 50 Years
Johan A. Aarli
This resource covers the history of the WFN from its founding in Brussels in 1957 to the present day. Written by a former President and long-standing officer of the WFN, The History of the ...
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The Rhetoric of Medicine: Lessons on Professionalism from Ancient Greece
Nigel Nicholson and Nathan Selden
The Rhetoric of Medicine explores problems that confront medical professionals today by first examining similar problems that confronted physicians in ancient Greece. This ...
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A Short History of Medical Genetics
Peter S. Harper
This resource presents a lively account of how our ideas and knowledge about human genetics have developed over the past century from the perspective of someone inside the field with a deep ...
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Sir Charles Bell: His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy
Michael J Aminoff
Charles Bell (1774–1842) was a Scottish anatomist–surgeon whose original ideas on the nervous system have been equated with those of William Harvey on the circulation. He suggested that the ...
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William Richard Gowers 1845-1915: Exploring the Victorian Brain
Ann Scott, Mervyn Eadie, and Andrew Lees
Sir William Richard Gowers was one of the pre-eminent clinical neurologists of the nineteenth century. Co-authored by one of Dr Gowers' descendents and two leading neurologists, this book ...
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